Talend MDM

Module 1: Talend MDM Overview

• Talend Data Fabric: integrated platform overview
• Talend MDM positioning: open vs proprietary MDM
• MDM concepts in Talend context
• Talend MDM products: MDM Web UI and Talend Studio MDM
• Installation and Talend Administration Centre
• vs Informatica MDM: open-source differentiation

Module 2: Data Model Design

• Data Container: creating MDM repositories
• Business entities: XML schema-based design
• Data Types: simple types and complex types
• Foreign key and inheritance relationships
• Entity versioning and change management
• Reusable type library design

Module 3: Data Entry & Web UI

• MDM Web UI: browse, search, create, edit
• Form rendering: labels, dropdowns, lookups
• Validation messages and mandatory fields
• Bulk data operations via Web UI
• Workflow taskbox for data stewardship
• Role-based access to entities

Module 4: Talend Studio MDM

• tMDMInput and tMDMOutput components
• Reading master data in ETL jobs
• Writing records to MDM repository
• tMDMReject for error handling
• Dynamic container selection
• MDM job design patterns

Module 5: Data Quality in Talend MDM

• Validation rules: type, pattern, mandatory
• Custom validation with Groovy scripts
• Talend DQ integration for profiling
• Standardisation rules for cleansing
• Error management: invalid record handling
• DQ dashboard metrics

Module 6: Matching & Survivorship

• Record matching: exact and fuzzy algorithms
• Merge threshold and confidence scoring
• Survivor record creation rules
• Pre-pivot and post-pivot merge
• Unmerge and golden record review
• Talend Identity Resolution integration

Module 7: Workflow & Governance

• BPMN-based approval workflows
• Data steward task assignment
• Lifecycle states: pending, approved, archived
• Routing rules for workflow paths
• Talend MDM API for external triggers
• Change tracking and audit history

Module 8: Integration & Operations

• REST API for programmatic MDM access
• MDM event publishing for downstream consumption
• Elasticsearch full-text search integration
• Backup, recovery, and version management
• Performance monitoring and optimisation
• Talend MDM upgrade and migration guidance

Our Talend MDM instructors are Talend-certified data management professionals who have implemented Talend MDM alongside Talend Data Integration pipelines for organisations consolidating customer, product, and reference data. They bring data governance expertise and Talend Studio development skills for end-to-end data management programmes.